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July 2007
 Rulan
Tangen (Métis) is the choreographer and director
of the indigenous dance company Dancing Earth. Choreographer for
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, she also contributed choreography
for Terence Malik's The New World, in which she played
the role of Two Moons. Tangen teaches dance workshops in New Mexico
public schools under the Santa Fe Opera and nationally for the
Native Wellness Institute, as well as teaching recent master classes
at the University of Arts in Jalapa Mexico, UC Riverside, and
the Society for Dance Historians. She and her company have performed
recently at the Hemispheric Encuentros in Brazil and Argentina,
Living Rituals World Indigenous Dance Festival and the Roots Remix
Festival- both in Toronto, and the Santa Fe Dance Festival. In
2001, Tangen was featured in the PBS television special and subsequent
80-city tour of "Music from a Painted Cave," featuring
the music of Robert Mirabal. Tangen earned other performance and
international touring credits with a diverse range of companies
including Michael Mao Dance of New York, Karen Jamieson Dancers
of Vancouver, "Tribe" at the Ordway Theater in Minnesota,
Banff Centre's Minigoowezewin", Redwood Empire Ballet, and
"One Railroad Circus" and Moving People Dance Theater
of New Mexico. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Rulan Tangen - photograph by Carlos Mario Lema; Rulan Tangen -
photograph by Carlos Mario Lema
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